Le nozze di figaro in HD

State Theatre

15 Livingston Ave.New Brunswick, NJ08901

From the Royal Opera House
Broadcast in HD on our 46' Screen
Tue, November 20, 2012 at 7pm
Revolution is in the air in David McVicar's wonderfully illuminating production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro from the Royal Opera House. Mozart's music makes this one of the finest jewels in the opera repertory, with a wealth of famous melodies that start from the familiar first notes of the energetic Overture. The all-star cast includes Erwin Schrott as Figaro, Dorothea R÷schmann as the Countess, Gerald Finley as the Almaviva, and Miah Persson as Susanna. The Guardian raves Erwin Schrott, "handsome of presence and gorgeous of tone, is a star."
Life on an estate in the late 1820s reveals with truth and no little wit all the tensions between master and servants, with the symptoms of Europe's social upheaval never far away. Count Almaviva's attempts to bed his manservant Figaro's fiancÚ Susanna are repeatedly thwarted by those around him, including this own wife, the Countess. In such enlightened times if the Count wishes to dance, then Figaro will make sure it is to his tune and not the other way around.